Samsung's WriteMaster SH-S183L DVD Drive Shipping

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Samsung announces the introduction of the new WriteMaster SH-S183L - the first 18X Serial ATA DVD burner on the market today. With its SATA interface, the SH-S183L eliminates the need for Master/Slave jumper settings and provides thinner data cables, improving airflow and cable routing. The SH-S183L offers transfer rates of 150MB/s, 300MB/s and 600MB/s, making it one of the fastest drives on the market today. Designed for consumers looking for a super-fast DVD burner with advanced technology, the SH-S183L offers 12X DVD-RAM recording, and 8X double layer DVD+R and DVD-R recording. LightScribe technology is also embedded in the DVD drive, letting users engrave labels, photos, and designs right onto the CD and DVD discs with no hassle at all. The SH-S183L is the ideal drive for home users as well as IT professionals for use in enterprise and network storage applications.

Utilizing LightScribe technology, the SH-S183L is suited for use in the home or office, and is easy and simple to use. Users record their preferred data – music, photos, or text – remove the disc after burning is complete, turn it over and the SH-S183L imprints the label, design or photo onto the disc. This one-of-a-kind technology focuses light energy onto a thin dye coating to produce labels. Only LightScribe-ready CDs and DVDs can be inscribed by drives with LightScribe technology.

The SH-S183L features quick 8X double layer recording and fast 12X DVD-RAM recording, providing a five-minute improved RAM writing time over current drives on the market. Using uses Samsung's Super-WriteMaster technology the SH-S183L is an advanced triple-format drive that supports DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM recording. While traditional DVD-RW and DVD+RW drives limit media to a 1,000 time re-recording capacity, DVD-RAM drives offer an amazing 100,000 re-recording capability that is more comparable to a hard drive than an optical drive.

The SH-S183L provides users the benefit of many advanced technologies including: Weight Balancing System to maximize performance and lower the volume of in use clatter when recording or reading at top speeds; Speed Adjustment Technology, to match the speed to the functionality of the disc; Tilt Actuator Compensation for preferred writing condition when interacting with the objective lens; and Double Optimum Power Control, which balances the laser power on the sides of the disc for a better writing performance. Buffer Under Run Error is avoided by the power save attribute.

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